Private Charles Ryland
Army Number: 266404 (formerly 4648)
Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
He resided at 10 Bagnall Cottages, Bagnall Road, Old Basford, Nottingham. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, in the attack at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
(Commonwealth War Grave Commission shows Army number as 266408)
Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Fonquevillers, France. Plot 1, Row B, Grave 16.
Private Ryland is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
St. Leodegarius Church War Memorial, Old Basford, Nottinghamshire,
His 2 brothers, Private Harold Ryland 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and Private Percy Ryland 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry also fell in the Great War.